Post by andrewearlwood on Mar 10, 2024 10:53:45 GMT 8
Initial thoughts:
1. I’m not sure that that speedway is either a ‘made for’ spectator experience - either trackside or on TV. Same observations apply to watching the old challenge Daytona and Clash races.
2. L C-B will be happy - provided she pulls up injury free this week - with per performance and result. She’s only been jogging since January and has only done one - three week long - block of real run training in Lanzarote. Her energy looked good throughout, even though she didn’t have the run legs to go with India Lee in the second half of the run. That being said, the big T100 hitters - Haug and Gentle were missing, so not only will she need to step up a notch to beat the likes of India and Kat next race, she’s also going to have to find another notch again to contend with Anne and Ash I reckon.
3. I went cycling myself for the second half of the men’s TV coverage, so only watched the run in review, but I thought that Alistair Brownlee would be well pleased, provided he - like Lucy - pulls up injury free. With 5km to go he was still leading, and in fact at the half way point he still looked like winning. Even with 2km to go he was in 2nd. If he stays injury free, those training block will start to stack up, back to back to back run blocks and it is just possible that come the second half of the season he may be invincible again. Here is hoping.
4. Magnus and strong and metronomic. Long has excellent early season form (40km swim weeks and 150km fun weeks will do that), but will he be gassed by the time the Olympic athletes come back in? Will that 3+ minute swim deficit start to prove impossible to bridge once Laidlow really stars to bring the heat in the second half of the season, alongside those missing Olympic stars? I think the answer to that is yes: he will not feature much after Sam Francisco.
1. I’m not sure that that speedway is either a ‘made for’ spectator experience - either trackside or on TV. Same observations apply to watching the old challenge Daytona and Clash races.
2. L C-B will be happy - provided she pulls up injury free this week - with per performance and result. She’s only been jogging since January and has only done one - three week long - block of real run training in Lanzarote. Her energy looked good throughout, even though she didn’t have the run legs to go with India Lee in the second half of the run. That being said, the big T100 hitters - Haug and Gentle were missing, so not only will she need to step up a notch to beat the likes of India and Kat next race, she’s also going to have to find another notch again to contend with Anne and Ash I reckon.
3. I went cycling myself for the second half of the men’s TV coverage, so only watched the run in review, but I thought that Alistair Brownlee would be well pleased, provided he - like Lucy - pulls up injury free. With 5km to go he was still leading, and in fact at the half way point he still looked like winning. Even with 2km to go he was in 2nd. If he stays injury free, those training block will start to stack up, back to back to back run blocks and it is just possible that come the second half of the season he may be invincible again. Here is hoping.
4. Magnus and strong and metronomic. Long has excellent early season form (40km swim weeks and 150km fun weeks will do that), but will he be gassed by the time the Olympic athletes come back in? Will that 3+ minute swim deficit start to prove impossible to bridge once Laidlow really stars to bring the heat in the second half of the season, alongside those missing Olympic stars? I think the answer to that is yes: he will not feature much after Sam Francisco.
